[debian-mysql] Bug#922644: mariadb-server-10.3: Unable to reinstall

[Janusz S. Bień]

Package: mariadb-server-10.3
Version: 1:10.3.12-2
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

When I try to reinstall the package, I get

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Setting up mariadb-server-10.3 (1:10.3.12-2) ...
dpkg: error processing package mariadb-server-10.3 (--configure):
 installed mariadb-server-10.3 package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 7
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I don't use the MySQL directly, I'm just a user of MythTV which depends
on MariaDB. The recent change of the Internet provider resulted in the
change of the IP of my home computer which hosts the server and MythTV
clients stopped working. Not long ago a superficially similar problem
was solved by reinstalling the package, so I wanted to try this again.

BTW, I'm unable to login directly to the database, but the reason may be
independent of the problem described above (last time I have done it was
several years ago when diagnosing a different problem with MythTV).

Best regards

Janusz


-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.3 depends on:
ii  adduser                   3.118
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.70
ii  galera-3                  25.3.25-1
ii  gawk                      1:4.2.1+dfsg-1
ii  iproute2                  4.20.0-2
ii  libc6                     2.28-6
ii  libdbi-perl               1.642-1+b1
ii  libpam0g                  1.1.8-4
ii  libssl1.1                 1.1.1a-1
ii  libstdc++6                8.2.0-20
ii  lsb-base                  10.2018112800
ii  lsof                      4.91+dfsg-1
ii  mariadb-client-10.3       1:10.3.12-2
ii  mariadb-common            1:10.3.12-2
ii  mariadb-server-core-10.3  1:10.3.12-2
ii  passwd                    1:4.5-1.1
ii  perl                      5.28.1-4
ii  psmisc                    23.2-1
ii  rsync                     3.1.3-5
ii  socat                     1.7.3.2-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.11.dfsg-1

Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.3 recommends:
ii  libhtml-template-perl  2.97-1

Versions of packages mariadb-server-10.3 suggests:
ii  mailutils [mailx]  1:3.5-2
pn  mariadb-test       <none>
pn  netcat-openbsd     <none>
pn  tinyca             <none>

-- Configuration Files:
/etc/mysql/mariadb.conf.d/50-server.cnf changed:
[server]
[mysqld]
user		= mysql
pid-file	= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
socket		= /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock
port		= 3306
basedir		= /usr
datadir		= /var/lib/mysql
tmpdir		= /tmp
lc-messages-dir	= /usr/share/mysql
skip-external-locking
% bind-address		= 192.168.1.11
bind-address		= 192.168.0.10
key_buffer_size		= 16M
max_allowed_packet	= 16M
thread_stack		= 192K
thread_cache_size       = 8
myisam_recover_options  = BACKUP
query_cache_limit	= 1M
query_cache_size        = 16M
log_error = /var/log/mysql/error.log
expire_logs_days	= 10
max_binlog_size   = 100M
character-set-server  = utf8mb4
collation-server      = utf8mb4_general_ci
[embedded]
[mariadb]
[mariadb-10.1]


-- debconf information:
  mariadb-server-10.3/nis_warning:
  mariadb-server-10.3/old_data_directory_saved:
  mariadb-server-10.3/postrm_remove_databases: false

-- 
             ,   
Janusz S. Bien
emeryt (emeritus)
https://sites.google.com/view/jsbien